African migrants starved, raped and tortured in Yemeni town of Ras Al Ara, which profits from human smuggling – AP investigation
In this July 23, 2019 photo, Fatma, a migrant from Mali, carries her one-year-old Said Yaacoub, as she makes her way in Lahj, Yemen.
There was Zahra's answer. She was imprisoned for a month in a tin-roofed hut, broiling and hungry, ordered to call home each day to beseech her family to wire $2,000. She said she did not have family she could ask for money and pleaded for her freedom. But others are stranded in Yemen's nightmare – in some measure because Europe has been shutting its doors, outsourcing migrants to other countries.
The imprisonment and torture are largely ignored by Yemeni authorities. The AP saw trucks full of migrants passing unhindered through military checkpoints as they went from the beaches to drop their human cargo at each desert compound, known in Arabic as a "hosh". Others belong to Sabaha, one of the biggest tribes in southern Yemen, some of whom are famous for their involvement in illicit businesses. Yemenis call the Sabaha "bandits" who have no political loyalties to any of the warring parties.
Another, Ibrahim Hassan, trembled as he showed how he was tied up in like a ball, arms behind his back, knees bound against his chest. The 24-year-old said he was bound like that non-stop for 11 days and frequently beaten.
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